For the second-straight season, the Pac-12 endured a season defined by disappointment. For the second straight year, the conference missed out on the College Football Playoff, and while it wasn’t quite as bad as the 1–8 bowl record league members posted in the 2017 postseason, last year’s 3–4 showing in bowls didn’t win any new defenders for a conference at the bottom of the Power 5 totem pole.
Washington rebounded from two October losses to win the Pac-12 and reach the Rose Bowl, but the Huskies could not recover from an early hole in a 28–23 loss to Ohio State.